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This president has done the heavy lifting with no help from republicans to get gdp growing again, to stop job losses, we have a long way to go. but the issue on the health care bill is basically this. and i think you asked the right question. the republicans are defending the status quo. theyre okay with 40% premium increases in many of the states. theyre okay with people getting kicked off their insurance by insurance companies for pre-existing conditions. theyre saying, well, lets scrap it and...

And especially curbing the really significant abuses of insurance companies kicking people off of policies for pre-existing conditions. thats what this bill will do and this bills going to pass. >> larry: michael, any republicans going to go for it? >> i dont know. lets wait to see the bill, but the presidents giving another speech tomorrow on health care? really? i thought weve pretty much said all we have to say about this subject. i mean, weve gotten to the point after a year and three or fou...

Republican and democrat, that this is going to happen. in one form or another. and already the politics of what comes next is playing out. lets listen to tim kaine first and then orrin hatch, republican senator from utah. >> i would love the 2010 election being us selling what was done on health care and the other guys saying, no we should bring back the days of preexisting conditions and insurance company abuses. >> they dont want to vote for this dog. they really dont. they heard their people ...

Place and people see all those things they said are not true, its not a government takeover of health care, its private insurance competing for each other for 35 million new insurers with a lot of limitations so they cant do these abuses against consumers, thats a powerful argument. and after all, reconciliation was used by republicans to the extent that its ever been used, more times than democrats ever have. >> senator, i know you have have to go. quickly, arkansas senator blanche lincoln, her...

Brush of washington. who is free of it? scott brown is about it right now. >> about it. >> and before you get there, again, you would know far better than we would, dont you think part of the is -- the fund raising thing is part of it. but part of the -- when you really think about it, do you really want to sit there and envision the personal abuse that would be heaped upon you in the media. >> right. >> for six, seven, eight months as you run towards november. i mean -- >> but you look then at ...

Reason. the american public wanted them to have a majority. weve got a bill and i will challenge you on one of the things you said, this bill accomplishes a lot and reasonable people who want reform want to see this happen. >> i read the sites -- reforming insurance abuses. parents keep their kids on their policies until theyre 27. >> shepard: lets not pretend the democratic base is happy. its. >> i disagree. different parts of the base rewrite different parts of the bill but there are pieces of...

President to get results. they dont care about the baseball and rule calculations in the senate. they want results. look whats happening in insurance premiums. all across the united states, 20, 30, 40%. >> shepard: theyre going up. what i wanted to nail down. >> what the republicans are saying, were passing a bill that does this much good for the american people. its going to be politically a very good thing for democrats. >> you thing it would be good for the election because you have time. >> ...

Behavior for thosecides of risky beive -- those kind of risky behaviors either. insurance companies havent tackled that. why pick on obese people in america when the actual statistics have shown that were eating this food that has done this to our bodies. we are insulin resistant. 57 million people in the country are insulin resistant and only 5% know it. >> neil: that might be you, but no -- i am this way because i eat too much. thats another issue. what im asking you is were going to have admi...

Regulate abuses of the insurance industry, something republicans said we should do, now all of the sudden thats not good enough for the republicans. if you look at the position republicans were taking six months ago, a lot of that stuff is in the bill the white house is willing to support and the republicans look like they just simply want to play politics by stopping anything and thereby stopping president obama from getting any credit whatsoever for reform. megyn: andrea, what of what some bel...

And we have bipartisan support for doing it. because what we dont want is a situation in which suddenly people think theyre getting one thing and theyre getting something else. theyre harmed by a product. what secretary sebelius just referred to, which is not a washington thing -- in fact, state insurance standards in many states are higher than anything thats done in washington, is as a consequence of seeing consistent abuses by insurance companies and people finding themselves helpless to deal...